WEBVTT 12 NEWS TERRY SATER IS IN RACINEWHERE TONIGHT, THE SCHOOLRESPONDS.>> I THOUGHT, WAIT, WHAT'S THISWORD?I NEVER HEARD.IS IT SOMETHING I SHOULDN'TKNOW?>> SIXTH GRADER FRANCES HABECKSAYS THE PRINCIPAL OF TRINITYLUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL INRACINE TAUGHT HER THE NAME OF ASEX TOY.>> WHEN I FOUND OUT WHAT IT WAI THOUGHT, OH, WOW.I SHOULDN'T HAVE REALLY LEARNEDTHIS.THAT WORD THAT CAME OUT OF HERMOUTH.IT JUST, WHOA, YEAH.>> FRANCES SAID SHE HADPERMISSION FROM A TEACHER TOSELL THESE WATER SNAKE WIGGLIESFOR A CHURCH FUNDRAISER WHENSTUDENTS WEREN'T IN CLASS.FRANCES' DAD SAID THE PRINCIPALSHAMED HIS DAUGHTER BEFORE THESTART OF A BASKETBALL GAME LASTMONTH.>> THE PUBLIC SHAMING OF MYDAUGHTER, BEING CALLED IN FRONOF ADULTS AND OTHER CHILDREN,HER TEAMMATES AND HER COACH,THAT SHE WAS SELLING SEX TOYS.DAD SAYS HIS DAUGHTER WASSUSPENDED, AND HE WANTS ITUNDONE. THE SCHOOL IS ON SPRING BREAKTHIS WEEK.WHEN I KNOCKED ON THE DOOR THEPASTOR AND PRINCIPAL ANSWERED.BUT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO TALK ONCAMERA.THIS AFTERNOON THE SCHOOL SENT12 NEWS A WRITTEN STATEMENTREADING, "SEVERAL PRIMARYASSERTIONS AGAINST THE SCHOOLARE INACCURATE.IT WAS ASSERTED THAT A STUDENTWAS SUSPENDED FOR SPECIFICALLYSELLING SOMETHING ALLEGED TO BA SEX TOY.">> THAT'S NOT AN ASSERTION.THAT'S A FACT.THE SCHOOL'S LETTER GOES ON TOSAY, "WE HAVE NEVER ASSERTEDTHAT A 'WATER SNAKE' TOY IS ASEX TOY.">> THAT'S AN INCREDIBLE LIE.>> THIS GOT TO ME SO BADLY MYGRADES STARTED TO GO DOWN.I CRIED MYSELF TO SLEEP.>> MY PRAYER REMAINS THAT THISSCHOOL, THE LEADERS AT THISSCHOOL, REPENT.>> IN RACINE, TERRY SATER, WISN12 NEWS.KATHY: THE TRINITY SCHOOL BOARDSAYS THE GIRL VIOLATED SCHOOLPOLICY FOR SELLING TOYS INSCHOOL.

Dad stands up for daughter accused of selling sex toys at school

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Updated: 1:56 PM EDT Apr 3, 2017

RACINE, Wis. —

A Racine sixth-grader was suspended from school, accused of selling sex toys, but they were really something called water snakes. Now, her father is taking a stand.

"I thought, 'Wait, what's this word?' I never heard. Is it something I shouldn't know?" sixth-grader Frances Habeck said.

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Frances said the principal of Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Racine taught her the name of a sex toy.

"When I found out what it was, I thought, 'Oh wow! I shouldn't have really learned this, that word that came out of her mouth.' It just, whoa, yeah," Frances said.

Frances said she had permission from a teacher to sell Water Snake Wigglies for a church fundraiser when students weren't in class. Frances' dad said the principal shamed his daughter before the start of a basketball game last month.

"The public shaming of my daughter, being called in front of other parents and children, her teammates and her coach. That she was selling sex toys," Milt Habeck said.

Dad said his daughter was suspended, and he wants it undone.

The school is on spring break this week but sent WISN 12 News a written statement from the Rev. David Gehne, saying in part,

"Several primary assertions against the school are inaccurate. It was asserted that a student was suspended for specifically selling something alleged to be a sex toy."

"That's not an assertion. That's a fact," Milt Habeck said.

"We have never asserted that a 'water snake' toy is a sex toy," Gehne said in the written statement.

"That's an incredible lie," Milt Habeck said.

"This got to me so badly my grades started to go down. I cried myself to sleep," Frances said.

"My prayer remains that this school, the leaders at this school, repent," Milt Habeck said.

The Trinity school board said the girl violated school policy for selling toys in school. It considers the matter resolved.

Frances' dad said he'll continue a public campaign to vindicate his daughter.